Re: Support logical replication of DDLs

Hi, Zhang Li

On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 05:17, Zheng Li  wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>If you don't mind, would you like to share the POC or the branch for this work?
>
> The POC patch is attached. It currently supports the following functionalities:
> 1. Configure either database level or table level DDL replication via
> the CREATE PUBLICATION command.
>
> 2.Supports replication of DDL of the following types when database
> level DDL replication is turned on. Other less common DDL types could
> be added later.
> T_CreateSchemaStmt
> T_CreateStmt
> T_CreateForeignTableStmt
> T_AlterDomainStmt
> T_DefineStmt
> T_CompositeTypeStmt
> T_CreateEnumStmt
> T_CreateRangeStmt
> T_AlterEnumStmt
> T_ViewStmt
> T_CreateFunctionStmt
> T_AlterFunctionStmt
> T_CreateTrigStmt
> T_CreateDomainStmt
> T_CreateCastStmt
> T_CreateOpClassStmt
> T_CreateOpFamilyStmt
> T_AlterOpFamilyStmt
> T_AlterOperatorStmt
> T_AlterTypeStmt
> T_GrantStmt
> T_AlterCollationStmt
> T_AlterTableStmt
> T_IndexStmt
>
> 3.Supports replication of DDLs of the following types if only table
> level DDL replication is turned on.
> T_AlterTableStmt
> T_IndexStmt
>
> 4.Supports seamless DML replication of new tables created via DDL
> replication without having to manually running “ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ...
> REFRESH PUBLICATION" on the subscriber.
>

Great!  I think we can split the patch into several pieces (at least
implementation and test cases) for easier review.


+ * Simiarl to the generic logical messages, These DDL messages can be either
+ * transactional or non-transactional. Note by default DDLs in PostgreSQL are
+ * transactional.

There is a typo, s/Simiarl/Similar/.

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